Series 4 > Scottish industrial history

HENRY KALMETEr’s TRAVELS IN SCOTLAND 7
comes in their mind and as the spirit gives it, which sometimes,
like water coming from a fire well, but running through bad
channels, is lukewarm enough. The Lord’s prayer is not used among
them, and not accounted upon a minister as it is told me, having
once utter’d himself in this blasphemy that if our Saviour ever was
drunk in his wandring here, it was then when he made that prayer.
Another said it was come from the Devil. Their Ceremonies in
administrating the Sacraments are very short, as in the Baptising a
child the minister stands in his chair pouring the water upon it,
and praying some few words.
There is a toleration in the towns in Scottland, that the Episcopal
people or they of the Church of England may have their meeting¬
house-, but an extraordinary jealousie is betwixt them and the
former, which not only cometh from the difference in the Church
government, as I have heard once a Presbyterian Minister pray that
God would defend them from Popery, Prelacy and other evils; but
that the Episcopals in Scottland are commonly Torrys and Jaco¬
bites, but the other are Whigs and for the Hannoverian succession.
(It is impossible to go into the questions of how the clergy have
their Synodical Meetings, where all those of one Province meet
together etc., and of how there is a schism between the Episco¬
palians here and in England, mainly concerning the right to the
Crown.)
In Scottland are 900 Parishes of which some have but one, some 2
ministers. These elect some out of their members and send to the
General Assemblies which is yearly kept the 14th day of May in
Edenburgh, where they come together and elect a Moderator to
whom they propose what they have to say, give their judgement of
matrimonies, divorces, examine and create ministers, etc. The King
sends all ways a Commissionaire to that Assembly, who hath 1,000
pd.st. for it. My Lord Rothes was it this year, and his son that carryed
the King’s Commission before the Commissionaire, had $00 1.
sterling. They sit down about a fortnight or 3 weeks. But how
sometimes the Episcopals have prevailed in Scottland, as under
K. Charles 2, James etc., and sometimes the Presbyterians as
under Cromwell, K. William and now, that may be seen of their
histories.
About the Laws, Government and Jurisdictions in Scottland see